Mina Sartipi

Dr. Mina Sartipi is the Director of the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) and is also a UC Foundation Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, where she leads the Smart Communications and Analysis Lab (SCAL). She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2001 and her M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2003 and 2006, respectively.

In 2008, she was named UC Foundation Assistant Professor. This award was given to her based on her research activities and students evaluating her teaching. She was awarded the UTC Outstanding Faculty Research and Creative Achievement award in 2016. She has also been awarded the best researcher in the Department of CSE and the college of CECS in 2010, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Dr. Sartipi has been an IEEE senior member since 2016. She has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Enterprise Center, Chattanooga, TN since 2017. Since 2013, Dr. Sartipi has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Variable, Inc., Chattanooga, TN.

Dr. Sartipi’s research interests are in the area of communications and data science, in particular advanced wireless communications and data analysis for smart healthcare and urban futures. She has served as the technical program chair of conferences in the areas of wireless communications and networking. Additionally, Dr. Sartipi has been called on to review several papers on data compression and error control coding for various IEEE, ACM, and EURASIP conferences and journals in the past several years.